Favorite Fish and Fishing 



tarpon would not notice the slight pull on 

 the line from such a reel, as it renders on 

 the slightest provocation. A leather brake 

 sewed to one of the bars of the reel, or one 

 of the patented drag-handles, is absolutely 

 necessary in playing a tarpon, otherwise the 

 fingers are likely to suffer in consequence of 

 the fierce rushes of the fish for freedom. 

 A Tarpon My good friend Major-General Eustace 



Hill, a retired officer of the British army, 

 whom I initiated in tarpon fishing, declared 

 to me after an experience of thirty-five 

 years in India, and ten summers in Norway, 

 salmon fishing that the two finest sports in 

 the world were pig-sticking and tarpon fish- 

 ing, notwithstanding he has a record of 

 two hundred salmon in a single season 

 and there you are. But the General is one 

 of the " strenuous " type of sportsmen. By 

 the way his grandfather, Admiral Keppel, 

 the ranking officer of the British navy, died 

 a few years ago at the advanced age of 

 ninety- four years; by a special Act of Par- 

 liament he was continued in active service 

 until the day of his death. 

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